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This year’s spring Limited Edition from Four Roses honors Al Young for his 50 years at Four Roses, and strays from the standard small batch bottle design to use a 1967 design, harkening back to the year that Al’s career at Four Roses began.… Continue Reading “Sipp’n Corn Bourbon Review – Four Roses 2017 Small Batch Limited Edition Al Young 50th Anniversary”
I had often wondered why a handful of Bourbons were offered at 107 proof. Was this supposed to be a sweet spot? Knowing barrel-entry proof used to be lower, I wondered if it was a throwback to earlier days. I read what supposedly had… Continue Reading “Sipp’n Corn Bourbon Review – “The 107 Proof Challenge” – Old Weller Antique vs. Pure Kentucky XO vs. Baker’s”
Beginning in January 2015, in a stroke of genius from a marketing perspective, Beam Suntory released batches of Booker’s with individual names. I took the contrarian view and passed over the first named batch, and bought the last batch of 2014 instead, which was… Continue Reading “Sipp’n Corn Bourbon Review – Booker’s and Revisiting Booker’s 25th Anniversary”
By the fall release season of 2013, Bourbon’s popularity had already been surging for a decade. While it had legitimately developed into a “craze” about two years earlier, 2013 was just about the time that truly limited edition Bourbon became nearly impossible to find… Continue Reading “Sipp’n Corn Bourbon Review – William Larue Weller Buffalo Trace Antique Collection (2013 edition)”
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